Background
He was the second son of Reverend Henry Bremridge (1854–1913), vicar of Winkleigh, Devon, and Dora Milne (1860–1895), who died four weeks after his birth.
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Godfrey Bremridge
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Bremridge enlisted into the army, serving in the Army Service Corps in Egypt in 1914-1915. At some point he returned to England, and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps where he was appointed a probationary temporary second lieutenant on 2 July 1917, being confirmed in the rank on 6 September 1917. Assigned to Number. 65 Squadron, flying the Sopwith Camel, between 18 December 1917 and 9 March 1918 he drove down three enemy aircraft, and destroyed two others, and had a "share" of three victories with other pilots.
On 12 December 1935 he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, where he was granted a commission as Flying Officer Class "C".
On 22 January 1936 Bremridge, then living in Weybridge, Surrey, and Bernard L. Bremridge, a solicitor from Winchester, founded Weybridge Air Services Limited., a private company, to "carry on the business of carriers of passengers, goods and mails in aeroplanes, et cetera" However, on 26 April 1937 Bremridge was appointed manager of the sales department at Brooklands Aeronautical Club, where he also worked as a flying instructor. During the Second World War he served as a Pilot Instructor.
He was killed in a flying accident on 12 September 1941 and was buried at the churchyard of Street Peter & Street Paul at Sywell, Northamptonshire.
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